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Biden and Trump are in a dead heat ahead of November, poll shows

Some 40 percent of registered voters in the eight-day poll, which closed on Tuesday, said they would vote for Biden, a Democrat, if the election were held today, with the same share picking former President Trump. The dead heat was little changed from a 1 point lead that Biden held in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted April 29-30.

13 hours ago
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Seinfeld speech at Duke commencement prompts walkout protesting his support for Israel

Figures in robes and caps, some waving Palestinian flags, were seen filing out of crowds of graduates assembled on the grass in the North Carolina University's football stadium in the video posted on X. Reuters was able to verify the video's date and location. ...

2 days ago
Americas

Biden threatens to stop arm shipments if Israel invades Rafah

Biden, a self-described Zionist, had long resisted stopping any of the $3 billion in weapons the United States sends each year to Israel -- and pushed Congress for an increase in the wake of the October 7 attack by Hamas that triggered the major Israeli retaliation. ...

1 week ago

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US grounds some Boeing MAX planes for safety checks after cabin emergency

A piece of fuselage tore off the left side of the jet as it climbed following takeoff from Portland, en route to Ontario, US, on Friday, forcing pilots to turn back and land safely with all 171 passengers and six crew on board.

4 months ago
Americas

US defense chief hospitalized due to medical complications

Austin was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the evening of Jan. 1 "for complications following a recent elective medical procedure."

4 months ago
Americas

Harvard president says she was ousted by 'lies, insults'

Claudine Gay was engulfed by scandal after she declined to say unequivocally whether calling for genocide of Jews would violate Harvard's code of conduct, during testimony to US Congress last month.

4 months ago
Americas

New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft in copyright clash

Through their AI chatbots, the companies "seek to free-ride on The Times' massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment," the lawsuit said.

4 months ago
Americas

I have not read Hitler's 'Mein Kampf': Trump

In a rally in Iowa, Trump - the clear frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination - repeated language he has used in recent campaign events about illegal immigrants that has been criticized for being xenophobic and similar to language used by Hitler.

4 months ago
Americas

Canada print media to get two-thirds of Google's payment to news outlets

At the end of November, after months of negotiations, Ottawa and Google announced a "historic" agreement, where the tech giant would pay Canadian media companies compensation for the loss of advertising revenue. 

4 months ago
Americas

Harvard faculty rally around beleaguered university president Claudine Gay

A concisely worded petition was signed by at least 570 professors and was delivered Sunday evening to the 13-member Harvard Corporation, which has the power to fire university president Claudine Gay. More professors indicated they also wanted to sign, according to a co-author of the petition.

5 months ago
Americas

Washington Post staff to strike on Thursday

The strike comes after 18 months of failed talks to reach a new deal over pay, remote work, and other conditions -- and after the daily, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, warned more layoffs were possible.

5 months ago
Americas

Three killed in Las Vegas university shooting

The incident at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a short distance from the gambling hub's tourist-packed Strip, was the latest in the United States, where gun violence is a part of the fabric of daily life.

5 months ago
Americas

Biden 'not sure' he'd be running if Trump was not in 2024 race

"If Trump wasn't running, I'm not sure I'd be running," Biden said at a fundraising event for his 2024 campaign outside of Boston. "We cannot let him win."  

5 months ago
Americas

Chile, where Kissinger backed coup, remembers his 'moral wretchedness'

"A man has died whose historical brilliance never managed to conceal his moral wretchedness," Chile's ambassador to the United States, Juan Gabriel Valdes, wrote on X, the former Twitter.

5 months ago
Americas

George Floyd killer Derek Chauvin 'stabbed 22 times' in US prison: Prosecutors

Chauvin, whose killing of George Floyd in Minnesota sparked massive racial justice protests in 2020, was attacked in the law library of an Arizona prison in November.

5 months ago
Americas

Judge rejects Trump immunity claim in federal 2020 election case

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan found no legal basis for concluding that presidents cannot face criminal charges once they are no longer in office.

5 months ago
Americas

Brazil signs on to global climate deal to triple renewable energy

South America's largest country is now one of roughly 100 countries that have signed onto the deal, according to a European official familiar with the matter.

5 months ago
Americas

'Black Friday' kicks off US shopping season amid economic unease

"Black Friday" will be followed by the newer "Cyber Monday," as the sector seeks to entice bargain-hunters.

5 months ago
Americas

With X's Musk under fire, Biden joins rival Threads

The White House confirmed it had launched Threads accounts for the president, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, her husband Douglas Emhoff and the White House itself in English and Spanish.

5 months ago
Americas

Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president

In downtown Buenos Aires hundreds of Milei supporters honked horns and chanted his popular refrain against the political elite - "out with all of them" - as rock music played from speakers. Some people set off fireworks as excitement spread.

5 months ago
Americas

Biden turns 81 as voters show concern about age

His birthday will turn an unwelcome spotlight on the fact that the Democrat is the oldest president in American history -- and that if he wins a second term next year he will be 86 by the time he leaves.

5 months ago
Americas

Advertisers drop X after Musk backs anti-Semitic post

Nonprofit group Media Matters added Apple, Disney, Comcast, Lionsgate Entertainment, and Paramount Global to its list of companies pausing advertising on X.

5 months ago
Americas

Old photo, birthday wish, ravioli lunch: Personal ties on display during Xi-Biden meet

Among the key outcomes of the leaders’ summit were a resumption of military-to-military cooperation and the creation of a task force to curb the production of fentanyl.

5 months ago
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New Indonesia-US partnership unlikely to get off ground without reforms, analysts say

Indonesia’s recently elevated status as the United States’ comprehensive strategic partner remains insufficient as a means to boost Jakarta’s standing among Washington’s trading partners, analysts have said.

5 months ago
Americas

Biden hails Xi summit, military links to restart

The leaders of the world's biggest economies shook hands and smiled as they met at a historic estate near San Francisco for their first talks in a year, and wrapped up the four-hour summit with a walk in the garden.

5 months ago
Americas

What to expect when Biden meets Xi Jinping in San Francisco

The leaders of the world's two largest economies have known each other for over a decade and have shared hours of conversation in six interactions since Biden's January 2021 inauguration.

6 months ago
Americas

Biden says goal of Xi meeting is to resume US-China military communications

The Chinese severed military-to-military contacts with the United States in a fit of pique after then-House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August 2022.

6 months ago
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Indonesia, US herald ‘new era’ of cooperation

Jokowi and Biden announced on Tuesday that the Indonesia-US bilateral partnership would be elevated from a strategic partnership to a comprehensive strategic partnership (CSP).

6 months ago
Americas

Biden to embrace Asia allies and meet Xi in San Francisco

Biden is expected to outline progress on IPEF which will bring together three of the world's largest five economies -- the United States, Japan and India -- as well as Australia, South Korea and much of Southeast Asia, but not China.

6 months ago
Americas

Republicans face 2024 dilemma after abortion rights issue powers Democrats

Abortion rights could also appear directly on 2024 ballots in states including Arizona and Florida, as they did in Ohio on Tuesday.

6 months ago
Americas

Abortion rights advocates, Democrats score wins in US elections

In Ohio, a state that voted for Republican Donald Trump by 8 percentage points in the 2020 presidential election, voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, Edison Research projected.

6 months ago
Americas

Mexican Congress holds second UFO session featuring Peruvian mummies

Lawmakers first heard from Mexican journalist and UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan on Sept. 13 when he presented two specimens in a first-of-its-kind congressional event on UFOs, or FANIs in Spanish. Maussan said the bodies, believed to have been found near Peru's ancient Nazca lines, were not related to any life on Earth. 

6 months ago
Americas

US House censures lone Palestinian-American lawmaker over Israel comments

Twenty-two Democrats joined with most Republicans in the chamber to censure Tlaib for allegedly "promoting false narratives" on Hamas' Oct. 7 gun rampage in Israel and "calling for the destruction of the state of Israel." 

6 months ago

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